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What a horrible, mean thing to do to someone.

Watch the movie. I just did and what you are saying is not accurate at all.

Reality matters, go familiarize yourself with it before being so authoritative.

All practical jokes are essentially bullying. There are no exceptions to this rule.

While a lot of practical jokes are, it's for sure possible to do practical jokes that I'd file under harmless fun. The tv program Just for laughs is --somewhat surprisingly-- really good at this. Excuse the awful laugh track and jaunty music, but a good example is how they turned an air horn prank into something fairly harmless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb2VZ6lp8f0

I wouldn't call the gentle deception of something like temporarily taking a plastic apple from a close co-worker's cubicle shelf and replacing it each day with a larger and larger apple "bullying". The premise of this movie is absolutely trashy, but I think good-natured practical joking is at least possible.

what in the world is this doing on the front page of hacker news.. This movie was hilarious. The The Big 3 Podcast podcast is hilarious. Particularly if you're a fan of say, Ron and Fez, and that line of comedy.

(explained in my top level comment before I saw this)

I’ve never seen this film but I gotta say this seems like a pretty cruel prank. Considering Jimmy Kimmel, the one behind the “lie to my kids about eating all their Halloween candy and make them cry” prank, is a producer on this, I’m not surprised.

Interesting, I think this is here because the guy in it was in a video by a prankster who slaps magnets on people's cars when they don't return shopping carts (and causes aggressive confrontations) which made the front page of Reddit's 'public freakout' sub.

Strange topic for hacker news but with that aside, I loved the film. Really funny stuff.

Instant favorite that I will probably rewatch a few times

Fun fact, it's not the windy city, named after wind, it's the windy city, named after winding up screw jacks to raise a significant amount of the city by several feet. Yep: you've been saying it wrong your whole life.

You don't actually believe that, do you?

It's not about natural wind; that part is true. But "windy city" refers to all the hot air expelled by the promoters of Chicago as host of the 1893 World's Fair.

Heard about it first from Kill Tony a few years ago when they had the movie stars as guests of the podcast. Great movie, great episode.

this is the single best thing i have ever discovered on hn

i just finished watching it and i urge anyone reading this comment to do the same

What about it?

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